2 papers
cs.CR2026
The Invisible Ink of the Android Malware World: A Longitudinal Study on the Usage of Covert Communication Channels
Zeya Umayya, Manan Aggarwal, Manan Chugh +3
Proxies, VPNs and Tor have long helped the privacy community and users in censored regions to fight censorship. However, the same tools can be maliciously exploited by malware and…
cs.PF2023
PTPerf: On the performance evaluation of Tor Pluggable Transports
Zeya Umayya, Dhruv Malik, Devashish Gosain +1
Tor, one of the most popular censorship circumvention systems, faces regular blocking attempts by censors. Thus, to facilitate access, it relies on "pluggable transports" (PTs) tha…